Richard Barbieri’s This Annotated Week in Baseball History starts with a neat item: “On March 8, 1984 Richard Barbieri was born.” Rich uses that as a jumping off point to name an all-March 8th birthday team. And it’s not a bad team, but unlike me, he doesn’t share a birthday with the real Crash Davis.

Apologies if there is any weirdness around here today. See, I watched “Being John Malkovich” last night for the first time in several years, and I truly had forgotten how trippy it is. On the bright side, my dormant crush on Catherine Keener has been revived, so that’s nice.